Pull Method (Romans)

I.Do Not Be Conformed

A.Read the scripture multiple times

B. Pull Method

1. P= Place it

2. U= Understand it

3. L= Love it

4. L= Live it

C. Romans 12

Romans 12 NASB95

1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. 4 For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; 7 if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; 8 or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; 11 not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. 17 Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. 19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

II. P=Place It

A. Where is the scripture written?

1. Also quite certain is that Paul’s time in Greece was spent either at Corinth or its port city of Cenchrea. In a letter to the church at Corinth written toward the end of his stay in Ephesus (and less than a year before; cf. 1 Cor 16:8), Paul wrote: “After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you.… Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter” (1 Cor 16:5–6). Also supporting Corinth as the place of origin for Paul’s letter to the church in Rome are several indications in the greetings of chap. 16. In v. 23 Paul passed along the greetings of Gaius, his host. This could well have been the Gaius Paul baptized in Corinth (1 Cor 1:14). Erastus, whom Paul called the “city’s director of public works” (Rom 16:23), probably is the same Erastus mentioned in a Corinthian inscription as “procurator of public buildings.” The identity is strengthened by Paul’s statement in 2 Timothy that “Erastus stayed in Corinth” (2 Tim 4:20). And Phoebe, whom Paul commended to the church at Rome, is called “a servant of the church in Cenchrea” (Rom 16:1). These considerations have led the vast majority of scholars to accept Corinth as the city from which Paul wrote to the believers in Rome.

2. People

a.D. G. Miller finds three general groups in the church at Rome: the legalists, who thought that righteousness was a human achievement; the libertines, who abandoned the law even as a guide for the response of faith; and the spiritualists, whose pride destroyed the true sense of community and made them indifferent to the demands of civic order. From the greetings in 16:3–16 we may garner some interesting details about the membership in the church at Rome. For example, some had been Christians longer than Paul (v. 7), others had houses large enough to serve as meeting places (v. 5), and although many undoubtedly were slaves, some probably came from the higher echelons of society. One example would be Pomponia Graecina, the wife of the Roman general who commanded the British expedition in A.D. 43, who was tried and acquitted on the charge of having embraced a “foreign superstition,” most likely Christianity.

b.Another suggestion is that Rome was evangelized by the missionary outreach of Antioch, but there is no evidence of this. A more reasonable suggestion is that the church at Rome was founded by believers, both Jewish and Gentile, who for a variety of reasons traveled back and forth to the capital city or who had taken up residence there

B.What does the Scripture mean to the original audience?

1. Be different

2. Conform to Jesus

3. Don’t allow roman influences

4. Be forgiving

III. U=Understand it

A.What does the Scripture tell us about God?

1. That his mine is not like ours

2. That he is perfect

3. That he knows that we need to be reminded

4. That he loves all

5. God is unity

B. What Does this Scripture say about man?

1. that we think highly of ourselves

2.we don't want to be a sacrifice

3.man is need of a new mind

4. Man does not easily accept enemies

III. L=Love It

A. Read the Scripture over and over again

B. What does the Scripture demand of me?

1. Present your body living sacrifice

2. be not conformed

3. transform by renewing your mind

4. use your gifts

5. Romans 12:10–21

IV. L=Live it

A. How does the Scripture change the way I relate to people?

1. Romans 12:9–21

B. How does this prompt us to pray?

1. that we renew our minds

2.that we use our gifts

3.that we treat our enemies with love

4.be in unity

C. Reflecting on the Previous 6 Questions,how can I apply this scripture to my life?

1. to do quiet time everyday

2. remind ourselves how to treat each other

3 .constantly working in your gift

4. trust the Holy Spirits guidance

V. Conclusion

A. Pull your self through scripture.

B.P=Place It

U=Understand It

L= Love It

L= Live It